Species Tachyta (Tachyta) brunnipennis (Macleay, 1871)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Bembidium brunnipenne Macleay, W.J. 1871. Notes on a collection of insects from Gayndah. Transactions of the Entomological Society of New South Wales 2: 79-205 [118].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ANIC(MMUS) 2 specimens, Gayndah, QLD; AM K18156 1 specimen, Gayndah, QLD [25° 38' S 151° 37' E].

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: closed forest, predator, rotting wood, terrestrial, volant.

General References

Baehr, M. 2006. A new species of the genus Tachyta Kirby from northern Queensland, Australia, with the first record of T. brunnepennis (Macleay) from New Guinea (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Bembidiibae). Mitteilungen der Münchener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 96: 81-85 [83] (record from Irian Jaya, New Guinea; key to Australian species)

Erwin, T.L. 1975. Studies of the subtribe Tachyna (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Bembidiini), Part III: Systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the genus Tachyta Kirby. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 208: 1–68 [21] (taxonomy)

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